I don't think there's been another Google Home updates or Google Nest
updates video that have been so excited to give you there are a ton of new
features that you've been asking for for a long time let's go
hello Automators thanks for tuning in again I'm Brian from Automate Your Life
and today I'm going to take the frustration out of automation by giving
you all the newest features newest capabilities and even some new products
that work with Google Nest Google Home and Google Assistant let's start with a
really easy capability to utilize now you're going to need to link your Google
Duo account through your smart phone or through whatever you're carrying and
then you will see a call home button on your device and I'm going to show you
the settings here but as I hit that what I get is a video call coming through now
on these devices I can decline or I can accept the video call now this is only
really video calling right now I've tried to enable it on the Google home
and the Google home minis but right now it's not coming through but I would
expect that to turn into an audio call very soon now if you can't get Google
duo calling it is limited to a few countries change your language on your
device to English u.s. or your whole account if you can in the assistant
settings and then go into voice and video calling and you're just seeing
that on screen here but then you can enable it for different smart displays
throughout your home and those devices will receive the call home phone calls
now you're also going to be able to obviously utilize the smart displays
especially something like the Nest Hub Max with video calling and audio
calling utilizing that same service speaking of that Nest Hub Max there's
a number of new features with the camera on the front and this is really one of
the big reasons that you want to go on upgrade but I feel the need to show you
guys these new features and how they work now facial recognition as soon as I
look at this camera it recognizes me and what that does is that gives me the
ability to scroll through different components of the main interface it
allows me to get detailed information that is
specifically tended towards me now as I'm scrolling through you're noticing
customized music customized videos all of those customized components even
events that are tended towards me are showing up there and this will continue
to get more and more powerful as we go forward one of the other things that I
notice and I'm going to show you a demo here in a second but the custom lists
capability is actually there and available on devices like the Nest Hub
Max and it is especially powerful on the smart display so right now you're
not going to be able to navigate very well through just the voice interface
and then go access those lists on your device at least not easily it's there
but it's tough to get at now over here what you're going to get is this custom
list capability show me my lists you have four lists there are video ideas
shopping lists guest and to-do items show me my list called video ideas you
have three things on that list there notes and lists demo nest hub max review
and Google Nest Hub Max comparison so you can see I can actually tap off any
of these items on my list if I'd like to remove them the other thing is if I want
I can actually tap into any of these lists simply by tapping on them so
you're able to navigate through your lists as a full custom list feature on a
smart display now one absolutely fantastic feature that people have been
asking for forever is the ability to move music from one device to the other
or one device to a group of speakers now what I'm going to tell you just before I
show you this is then it will show up as a cast button on the smart displays
you'll actually have that cast button physically on there and be able to tap
that and then go pick something else I don't have that yet but I do have the
ability to transfer utilizing my voice so now as the music is actually playing
here on mine asked hub max I can request it to
transfer over here so you can see it doesn't matter what I do with the volume
over here it's not changing the volume but watch this transfer the music to the
original speaker okay I'll play it on original now I want to stop and talk a
little bit about what's coming now I had a video that I put out last week if you
didn't see it I'll give you the link at the end of this video but October 15th
is a big release date where we're going to see the pixel 4 and 4 XL and as well
as the Nest Mini and a new Nest Wi-Fi system and I think there's some other
products again you'll have to go watch that other video but what's really big
and what's really coming out our upgrades to the Google Assistant and I
still remember Google I/O with just that lady sitting there and giving probably
15 commands in the matter of a minute and having all of those commands
accurately answered and moving through her phone with that and you're going to
see this Google Assistant experience get pushed through to a lot of other devices
and this is definitely a hope for myself but I also see reason that this is going
to show up in a number of Android devices one of the things that Google is
doing right now is trying to mandate Android 10 and push that into a lot of
latest generation devices now I don't know which devices are going to get this
new version of the Google Assistant but it is definitely coming for the Pixel
4 and we're going to see a huge number of new capability showing up very soon
one the interesting component of this I haven't been able to do it because I'm
not in the US but Duplex has started to show up on the Nest Hub Max's and I bet
it started to show up here there's been a number of reports of people who've
actually been able to make reservations through this device and have the Google
Assistant go out and call so they're not utilizing their phone they're utilizing
the Nest Hub Max now if you do manage to get that to happen for yourself go
ahead leave that down in the comments below or come over to our community
where you can kind of post those pictures and show us how that's going on
there's a lot of Automators that are very interested in the Duplex system and what
it's going to be capable of as well as when they're going to get access to it
on these devices there are some other experiences or capabilities that have
been released prior to this October 15th and a great example of this is actually
within the Chrome browser on smart phones Android smartphones you're going
to see the ability now to fill out things like movie tickets and that's
that's an easy example so when you go to the site you're going to have the
ability now in some cases to fill out a form utilizing the Google Assistant so
it'll just autofill and have it done as much as they can for that form you know
we've been talking about this October 15th date a bit and I will have a video
that as soon as possible will be out that talks about what Google did
announce in the end at that event but we also saw an event from Microsoft here
very recently and they had their own version of the surface buds and really
they had a ton of surface products that came out I don't love the look of the
surface buds but the interesting thing about it is it's not only a Cortana
based device it's actually Google Assistant Amazon's voice assistant Siri
all of those voice assistants are capable on this device a couple things
within routines and some of the differences here that we're going to see
I think this is very positive stuff so number one you see little icons on an
Android device here on the ready-made routine so I don't know why I took
Google years to do that and if that was in the if that was in the programming
hopper and it took that long it's ridiculous but once you go inside the
routines you're actually going to find two types of reminders now it's not just
one and the first reminder is today's reminders you can ask the Google
Assistant on any of these devices to give you today's reminders but there's
also the home reminders and I don't quite get what this is is
all about just yet but you now have this split between the two types of reminders
and I think what it's going to come in to is basically a full list for your
whole home of all the reminders that people have at any given time but I
don't actually have anything coming out of that when I utilize it in a routine
and I've tried to pass tasks and reminders to to people throughout my
home so if you're able to get something out of that component within routines go
ahead again leave that down below one other thing that I don't think we've
talked about enough is the amount of privacy controls that Google is now
giving you and you have the ability to make it so that you know voice and
assistant activity is Auto deleted either it three months or 18 months or
those timeframes that they've given us access to but what we've also heard and
oh sorry and there is also a manual so you can just go into the application and
delete those things manually but the other thing we've heard is that you're
going to be able to actually ask the voice assistant just like Amazon has
done with theirs to delete history now I haven't seen this rollout just yet but
this is a coming feature that we're expecting on the Google Assistants now
one thing that a lot of you haven't seen unless you've been watching our reviews
on the Nest Hub Max is the support for gestures now it's only on the Nest Hub
Max right now but let me show you here through a demo as I have an alarm ring I
can go ahead and just use just my hand to actually stop that from continuing to
ring I can also start and stop music by raising my hand and you're also able to
actually stop interactions with the Google Assistant prior to kind of giving
it its its next command if you accidentally wake it up what's very
powerful about that in a kitchen environment or a very loud environment
is you're not yelling at the device anymore and I do think that this will
come out to the Lenovo Smart Display but we're going to see delay in that
and other Google Assistant enabled devices so it's not anywhere but here
right now so you're going to have to wait a little now moving on to some of
the other applications google photos has gotten quite an update here and not only
can I cast certain albums and certain picture sets to my Nest Hub Max or any
smart display or Google Chrome casts not only can I do that but now what you're
going to see showing up within Google photos is the ability to curate those
photos yourself the ones that you want to have show up within the Google Photos
application you will find very soon if you don't have it already the option for
photo frames and once you tap into that you're going to have the ability to pick
which photos are showing up on a smart display what you'll find inside the
Google Photos application is the button right here that you can press to start
casting to the device now you can choose by the name and you can see the type of
device that you're casting to once you've done that you actually have the
ability to start and stop videos as well as pick specific pictures if you'd like
to go ahead and cast to the device so you can see as soon as I tap on a
picture it shows up and it will stay while I pick another picture here
the other amazing thing is you can see it's actually playing a video that I am
casting from my phone it's not even uploaded to Google photos it's coming
straight from my phone to the device now the other feature you're going to find
eventually is as you tap in the menu you're going to find that photo frames
right there if you haven't already heard there's integration for Google assistant
with Xbox but I think even more important to this is some of the
near-field communication that we've seen now iOS already has this with some of
their latest generation iPhone models they have near-field communication in
the ability to set up shortcuts essentially so you bring your phone up
you tap on that near field communication sticker and that will activate a
shortcut for you but what Google is doing is it looks like they're creating
specific situations that you're going to be able to use NFC to trigger events so
one of the things is driving mode and I think this will be very very powerful so
essentially putting your phone into a holder with that near-field
communication capability to trigger into Google Assistants driving mode and this
is something that will come obviously with the pixel 4 but we're going to see
it again back up into other devices like the pixel 3a or 3 now on that note is
something called Action Blocks and we talked about shortcuts a little bit from
iOS but Google really hasn't had a response and people use tasks are quite
a bit to get things to happen within Android now what Google is doing is
creating action blocks which was intended more for for people who
struggle hearing seeing or reading in general to kind of create these
shortcuts for Google assistants so they didn't have to necessarily interact with
that voice assistant all the time but it's going to extend capabilities with
within Android devices with you having the ability to create icons or widgets
that start activities routines really anything that the Google assistant can
do and I think this is going to be extremely powerful for us as we see
Google Assistant get more and more integrated into the
level of Android now earlier in the video I talked about that October 15th
event and I'm really excited about it and to be honest I think you should be
too I think Google has a ton in store for us
there and it's going to be a very interesting event now part parceled all
of this is I've seen a number of sales on Google Wi-Fi Google home many devices
and I think you got to watch yourself a little bit so I would really recommend
that you go watch the video that's on screen right now that tells you what to
expect on October 15th from Google now otherwise guys I hope this video has
really got you excited about this ecosystem again and until next time
thanks for watching and don't hate automate